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I know it might make newcomers a little nervous to hear this, but I’m not the same person I was before recovery — not even close. And...

Prior to recovery I had never tried meditation, and I hadn’t even really heard of mindfulness.  Meditation always seemed like a huge...

Emotions are a difficult subject in recovery because for most of us, numbing emotions was a primary reason for our drinking/using.   When...

Trying to hold a job in active addiction is an exhausting and soul-crushing endeavor.  For several years in the earlier days of my...

I think most people have heard the following advice: “you can’t get sober for someone else, you have to get sober for yourself.”  If...

My collection of 12-step meeting chips includes dozens of 30-day chips because I relapsed so often over the course of a year and a...

1.  It does get easier – a LOT easier (and fun)! When I was drinking, and especially when I crossed the line into addiction, I couldn’t...

I spent a lot of time like this in the early days of recovery For me, early recovery was a very lonely time.  I needed more support than...

It took me a year and a half of trying and failing and trying again to finally achieve lasting sobriety.  In this time, I had an...

When I got to rehab, I was absolutely broken.  I had lost everything, and I had absolutely no idea how I was going to move forward.  I...

My rock bottom occurred in Seattle.  I had moved out from the apartment my ex-husband and I had shared and into my own luxury apartment...

Snowy Serenity I will go into much greater detail on my journey into recovery, and all the relapses and failures and new starts.  There...

I wish I could say my first meeting was magical and I lived happily after right away.  Parts of it were magical, because I discovered for...

I regret my choices, and I'm stuck here About 11 am on a Saturday. I was starting to get queasy.   Earlier I had enough vodka to allow...

I know a lot of alcoholics started drinking when they were kids. This was not the case for me.  As a kid, I was a bit of a dork to be...

Addiction can bring about significant challenges not just for the individual struggling with it but also for their families. The journey...